This year’s Australian Malaysian Film Festival (AMFF) from Oct 4 to 7, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, here, pays tribute to the memory of Malaysian filmmaking legend Yasmin Ahmad. Yasmin’s work crossed conventional cultural barriers and fittingly, in its third year, the festival offers daytime screenings catering to Australian students [...]

The main route of transmission of the new Influenza A (H1N1)) virus seems to be similar to seasonal influenza, via droplets that are expelled by speaking, sneezing or coughing. You can prevent getting infected by avoiding close contact with people who show influenza-like symptoms (trying to maintain a distance of about 1 metre if possible) [...]

Eight more deaths relating to Influenza A (H1N1) were confirmed on August 9, bringing the death toll to 26 in the country. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said seven deaths were from the high-risk group and that some were post-reported due to post-mortems to study and confirm the cause of deaths. He said [...]

Malaysia’s death toll from the Influenza A(H1N1) has risen to eight with the deaths of a young mother in Sarawak and a female teacher from Selangor, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said. He urged doctors to be alert of patients with flu-like symptoms and severe pneumonia especially high risk individuals such as the [...]

Malaysia has recorded the first influenza A (H1N1)-related death from a local transmission, signalling that the flu in the country is worsening. The 42-year-old man, who died on Monday, is the third victim to have died from the flu. The two earlier deaths were linked to imported cases of the H1N1. They were a 46-year-old [...]

The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday; the first global flu epidemic in 41 years, as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere climbed to nearly 30,000 cases. The long-awaited pandemic announcement is scientific confirmation that a new flu virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe. [...]